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...Merkel of "blackmail" and warned that her government's support for Magna could backfire. Initially, GM had serious reservations about Magna's offer and seemed to favor a rival bid by the Belgian-based investor, RHJ International. One GM official said RHJ's offer was "simple and elegant." In particular, GM was uncomfortable with a Russian company getting its hands on Opel's technical expertise and patents...
...respect for privacy. It seems that, for Hoffmann, if the truth may also belong to someone else, he cannot presume to offer the definitive version and so will deliberately stray. He is fundamentally concerned with honest communication, and he beautifully distills the small revelations from the events of his particular life. To read “Curriculum Vitae” is to briefly shadow the patterns of a remarkable mind. When Hoffman’s Japanese teacher eventually commits suicide, he next recalls a woman from the Association of Soldiers’ Mothers who drowned while crossing the Jordan...
...Connor also finds that American museums in particular lack important security measures. In various foreign countries, like Turkey, he claims that protection is better. “You have armed guards and then you have state-of-the-art alarms, and it would be very difficult to take down a museum like that,” he says. “They don’t have that...
...what's interesting is that, politically, you can't shoehorn them in any particular ideology. They're, in fact, a third liberal, a third conservative, and a third moderate, which is really interesting...
...about how we can really tap into businesses to improve science and technology and math education. And I am willing to bet that there isn't a high-tech company out there - Google, Microsoft, what have you - that wouldn't love to sponsor young people - and young girls in particular, who oftentimes are left out of the conversation on math and science education - to really boost them...